Announcements

May 03, 2019

The following section is sponsored by The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California

Dr. Frisch now offers an Online Group Coaching Program starting October 26, 2018!Dr. Frisch is now offering an Online Group Coaching Program designed to deepen your understanding of Dr. Frisch’s method provided through the affiliated Audio CD/MP3 Series. Join a community with other students and professionals that offers you a dedicated learning path, an opportunity for in-depth discussion, Q&A, case presentation, and experiential dyads. The group offers you feedback from colleagues and Dr. Frisch and helps you integrate and apply this material to your current practice. Click here for more information.

Foreword by Judith Pearson, Director, The International Masterson Institute!

“Dr. Patricia Frisch’s book is a must-read guidebook for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health and medical professionals. Anyone interested in psychology, personality or character types, verbal analysis, and somatic approaches will enjoy her lively discussion. It includes an easy-to-read, step-by-step methodology for treating the whole patient while supporting the whole therapist. The reader is introduced to Wilhelm Reich, the father of somatic psychology and character analysis, James Masterson M.D. and Carl Jung.”

Whole Therapist, Whole Patient: Integrating Reich, Masterson, and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy is filled with tools and techniques for therapists, instructions on dream analysis, case management, working with difficult patients and much more.

You can watch Dr. Frisch’s book event at book Passage in Corte Madera here.

Dr. Frisch also offers an 8-week Online Interactive Book Discussion Group designed for all audiences and focuses on the following:

My video book interview is available and you can watch it here. In this 30-minute segment, I reveal the table of contents, discuss the purpose of the book, and elaborate on other relevant topics. You’ll also see interesting footage of past trainings and patient demos and see film of my office and where I wrote the book.

Orgonomy is a mind-body approach to health. Allopathic medicine (in some quarters) is shifting toward embracing this paradigm, as physicians understand that diseases emanate from a complex interactional mind-body field rather than being limited to a silo of discreet symptoms.

In Orgonomy, we outline a map of the body as it correlates to character structure, and each area – eyes, mouth, cervical, chest, diaphragm, belly and pelvis – has its own functional capacity to open or close its gates to the movement of energy (including sensation, perception, capacity for movement and release) throughout the body.

We designate this map as the seven segments of armoring and describe how each segment acts to either fulfill or limit our capacity to experience aliveness and pleasure; depending on how armored (tense, unyielding, slack) each segment is (see blog Reich’s Understanding of Character and Body Expression, August 30, 2017).

The ocular segment functions as the vehicle for taking in reality, seeing clearly with open eyes that have the ability to express all feelings – softness, tenderness, aggression, receptivity, curiosity. Armored eyes do not interface with clarity, thus distorting reality and resulting in faulty assumptions. Rather than unobstructed curiosity, armoring creates barriers to sincere and unprejudiced interest.

Dr. Frisch also offers a full range of courses for students and mental health professionals that are CE accredited through CPA OPD and other licensing boards that accredit: MFTs, Nurses LCSWs and others.

Our therapy model is very active and engages the client in a process of transformation that is palpable after the first session. Dr. Frisch’s unique synthesis utilizes the principles and techniques of Wilhelm Reich updated with complimentary theoreticians. As the father of somatic psychology, Reich created a mind/body discipline that incorporates biophysical interventions through breath, direct manipulation, and physical expression. This biophysical work is paired with verbal analysis that captures each client’s character type and helps shift patterns that have caused pain and suffering – all contained within a strong, spirited relationship between client and therapist. The result is profound character transformation and significantly lower levels of stress, muscular contraction, and physical and psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety. Dr. Frisch helps with relationship issues and supports transformative, transcendental objectives when applicable.

Learn more about our services here.

Orgonomy and the Work of Wilhelm ReichWatch this 2-minute excerpt from SAGE Video Collections, which briefly describes the practice of Orgonomy. SAGE asked Dr. Patricia Frisch to join their reference library as an author in order to help viewers understand this powerful somatic therapy. The full 30-minute video can be accessed through SAGE. Let us know what you think of the clip: assist@orgonomictherapy.com.

Patricia R. Frisch, Ph.D., psychologist, MFT, is an expert in Wilhelm Reich’s characteranalytic and somatic approach, known as Orgonomy. She has created her own unique method, integrating Masterson, and Jung with Reich that defines the nuts and bolts of clinical practice. Reichian theory is at heart of current somatic approaches. As founder and Director of The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California (OINC), she supervises and trains professionals in Orgonomy: characteranalysis, somatic interventions, diagnostic typologies, and enhanced clinical skills at her own facility and at clinics in the Bay Area. She led workshops at Esalen® Institute for 10 years. Dr. Frisch has created a comprehensive audio training program, which provides long-distance learning and certification options to students throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of Whole Therapist, Whole Patient: Integrating Reich, Masterson and Jung in Modern Psychotherapy published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. She also authored the Orgonomy (Reichian Therapy) chapter of SAGE Publications’ (2015) Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy and published a video through SAGE (2015). She maintains an active private practice in Mill Valley, California. To learn more, please clickDr. Frisch.

Foreword by Judith Pearson, Director, The International Masterson Institute!

Marketing excerpt for the book: “Dr. Patricia Frisch’s book is a must-read guidebook for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health and medical professionals. Anyone interested in psychology, personality or character types, verbal analysis, and somatic approaches will enjoy her lively discussion. It includes an easy-to-read, step-by-step methodology for treating the whole patient while supporting the whole therapist. The reader is introduced to Wilhelm Reich, the father of somatic psychology and character analysis, James Masterson M.D. and Carl Jung.

Whole Therapist, Whole Patient is filled with tools and techniques for therapists, instructions on dream analysis, case management, working with difficult patients and much more.”

My video book interview is now available and you can watch it here. In this 30-minute segment, I reveal the table of contents, discuss the purpose of the book, and elaborate on other relevant topics. You’ll also see interesting footage of past trainings and patient demos, and see film of my office and where I wrote the book.

If you interested in my Method and are not able to attend in-person classes, I am starting an online coaching series available this Fall. I will begin with the Introductory Series, and hopefully we will continue as a group through my entire audio series that includes the Advanced and Bodywork modules. The program is listed on my website under Coaching. We will form a cohesive group that will intimately bond as have my local class groups over the many years I have been training.

If you are a mental health professional or a professional who works in a healing capacity with others, please sign up. All potential participants will be interviewed by me before inclusion. The group will be open to 6-8 participants.

Our therapy model is very active and engages the client in a process of transformation that is palpable after the first session. Dr. Frisch’s unique synthesis utilizes the principles and techniques of Wilhelm Reich updated with complimentary theoreticians. As the father of somatic psychology, Reich created a mind/body discipline that incorporates biophysical interventions through breath, direct manipulation, and physical expression. This biophysical work is paired with verbal analysis that captures each client’s character type and helps shift patterns that have caused pain and suffering – all contained within a strong, spirited relationship between client and therapist. The result is profound character transformation and significantly lower levels of stress, muscular contraction, and physical and psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety. Dr. Frisch helps with relationship issues and supports transformative, transcendental objectives when applicable.

Watch this 2-minute excerpt from SAGE Video Collections, which briefly describes the practice of Orgonomy. SAGE asked Dr. Patricia Frisch to join their reference library as an author in order to help viewers understand this powerful somatic therapy. The full 30-minute video can be accessed through SAGE. Let us know what you think of the clip: assist@orgonomictherapy.com.

Referrals to Reichian Therapists

The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California offers an intensive training program in Orgonomy, also known as Reichian Therapy, and Dr. Patricia Frisch’s method. The therapists we train are proficient in verbal character analytic therapy paired with a biophysical component that helps release body armoring.

There is a cadre of therapists trained by OINC who are available to help and assist patients in the Bay Area. Please call Dr. Patricia Frisch at 415-388-0622 for an appropriate referral. Some therapists within our group offer discounted rates. Their offices are in Marin, San Francisco, and Berkeley, California.

Patricia R. Frisch, Ph.D., psychologist, MFT, is an expert in Wilhelm Reich’s characteranalytic and somatic approach, known as Orgonomy. She has created her own unique method, integrating Masterson, and Jung with Reich that defines the nuts and bolts of clinical practice. Reichian theory is at heart of current somatic approaches. As founder and Director of The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California (OINC), she supervises and trains professionals in Orgonomy: characteranalysis, somatic interventions, diagnostic typologies, and enhanced clinical skills at her own facility and at clinics in the Bay Area. She led workshops at Esalen® Institute for10 years. Dr. Frisch has created a comprehensive audio training program, which provides long-distance learning and certification options to students throughout the U.S. and internationally. She authored the Orgonomy (Reichian Therapy) chapter of SAGE Publications’ (2015) Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy and published a video through SAGE (2015). She maintains an active private practice in Mill Valley, California. To learn more, please clickDr. Frisch.

April 12, 2013

The School of Personal Growth was an offering by Google to help its employees “grow as people," offering courses such as "The Neuroscience of Empathy" and "Search Inside Yourself." The main goal of this school was to promote happiness among the employees and allow them to understand themselves in a deeper way in order to foster creativity and cooperation.

Big Think had the opportunity to speak with Monika Broecker, who co-founded the school and who has gone on to found her own Personal Growth Program.

In this two day workshop, we will explore the dream as a form of somatic play. Winnicott, in Playing and Reality, stated that psychotherapy is about two people playing together.

June 28-29, 2013 10am-6pm in Berkeley, CARegister before May 31st: $300 regular, $250 students Register from June 1st to 15th: $350 regular, $300 studentsRegister after June 15th: $375 regular, $350 students At the door: $400 regular, $375 students

This two-day course offers an opportunity to study one’s dreams dramatically, reflectively, symbolically and somatically. We will narrate, walk through and play out dreams in a dramatic setting, a process supported by fundamental Jungian and somatic concepts.

Cost:Register before October 1st: $300 regular, $250 studentsRegister from October 1st to 15th: $350 regular, $300 studentsRegister after October 15th: $375 regular, $350 studentsAt the door: $400 regular, $375 students

Internationally renowned healers and spiritual teachers Bradford Keeney and Hillary Keeney introduce seiki jutsu, the Japanese art of working with the non-subtle vital life force. As a self-healing and revitalization practice, seiki jutsu teaches how spontaneous and effortless movement and action provides the most natural means for tuning, awakening, and transforming your life.

Working with the Emotional Body An Introduction into Analytic Somatic Therapy™ and the Bioenergetic Perspective with Monika Broecker, MFTi A program consisting of 5 individual introductory sessions$75 per 60 minute session; $60 for full-time students. Cost for entire program: $375; $300 for full-time students. Participants must commit to all 5 sessions.

The Emotional Body in Community with Monika BroeckerAnalytic Somatic Therapy™ and the Bioenergetic Perspective A program consisting of 5 individual introductory sessions combined with 3 group processing sessionsWednesday group meets 10/10, 10/17 and 10/24Saturday group meets 10/13, 10/27, 11/3 Cost for entire program: $630; $510 for full-time students

OFFERINGS BY THE ORGONOMIC INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA/Patricia Frisch, PhD

Dr. Patricia Frisch and The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California Announce Their New Independent Study Path and 2012 Summer/Fall Schedule of Classes

OINC live and Independent Study classes are an especially dynamic and effective way to expose more clinicians and graduate students to the important contributions of Wilhelm Reich, often credited with being the father of somatic therapies. He was a master at character interventions that could quickly and deeply facilitate patient break-through, allowing them to make contact with their authentic self and their core feelings. Reich’s characteranalysis is a skill that maximizes potent interventions and moves the patient beyond their facade and into profound honesty. Some therapists, when they are first introduced to the theory and practice of Orgonomic Therapy, see it as a bit “out of the box” in its spontaneous, liberating style. Orgonomic Therapy’s unique approach is an effective antidote to the compelling, deadening counter-pull of patients’ habitual homeostasis. As therapists, we need to move from stale interventions and intellectualized interpretations to meaningful exchange. We teach this method of character intervention because of its great effectiveness.

Our live and Independent Study Path classes fall into the following categories:

Independent Study Path: When attending live classes is not an option, Dr. Frisch may give students permission to complete program requirements through our Independent Study Path option. The Path begins with the Introductory level training series and continues with the Intermediate and Advanced training series. There are 3 components to this path:

Listening to Audio CD courses in each Series. There are 6 audio courses at each level (Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced).

Listening to MP3 recordings of live Study Group classes. There are 8 live classes per level (Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced).

Four 1.5 hour consulting sessions with Dr. Frisch per level, scheduled at a mutually agreed upon time.

Clinical OINC Community Days: (6.5 hrs. each, Saturdays 9:30am-5:30pm)These are clinical experiential classes where students apply Orgonomic methods in order to practice and enhance their skills, including but not limited to: differential diagnosis, character interventions, dream analysis and transference issues. Case presentation with mentoring by Dr. Frisch is included.

Biophysical Demo Days: (6.5 hrs. each, Saturdays 9:00am-5:00pm)Biophysical Demo Days present demonstrations of Orgonomy with 4 practice clients who volunteer for this purpose. Practice clients are worked on by Accredited Orgonomists coached by and under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Frisch.

New Distance Learning Comprehensive CD Training Series Approved for CE’s for California Psychologists

OINC’s 6-course Comprehensive CD training series is designed for new and current students who want to learn characteranalysis and have a comprehensive education in Wilhelm Reich, Masterson and Dr. Frisch’s method.

These courses are at an intermediate/advanced level and will thoroughly cover the theoretical and clinical approach of Wilhelm Reich and his somatic techniques. The Masterson Group's delineation of the Disorders of the Self will also be included in order to represent later research in developmental attachment theory and round out Reich's diagnostic typology. These training courses are rich with information, include non-confidential discussion and experiential coaching to hear the approach in action, and allow students to self-pace and deepen their learning to the point of mastery. These courses facilitate your entry into more advanced classes that include Reich's biophysical interventions.

In addition to Dr. Patricia Frisch’s instruction, several segments of the training are taught by Dr. Richard Blasband. Richard A. Blasband is a board-certified psychiatrist. Dr. Blasband studied medical orgonomy with Dr. Elsworth Baker, who was appointed by Wilhelm Reich to train physicians in his therapeutic discipline, psychiatric orgone therapy. With others of Dr. Baker’s students, Dr. Blasband assisted Dr. Baker in the creation of the American College of Orgonomy.

These courses are approved by MCEP for continuing education credit for California Psychologists. They are also approved for CE’s for California MFT’s, LCSW’s, and RN’s.

These two Orientation audio courses are designed to offer the public and professional audience some basic exposure to Wilhelm Reich’s theoretical orientation and clinical approach. They are recordings of live classes with experiential segments, lectures, and Q&A’s. They are a wonderful addition to any learning library and contain practical information that can be immediately useful.

Reichian Therapy is a method for character transformation that recognizes the essential functional identity of the mind and body. Also known as Orgone Therapy and Orgonomic Therapy, Reichian Therapy recognizes how “armoring” against the free flow of life energy blocks full emotional expression and the realization of one’s core self. The Orgonomic therapist works psychodynamically in the form of characteranalysis, as well as somatically to reveal to the patient\client their character attitudes and their biophysical armoring. As the character armor dissolves, the somatic interventions assist in breaking up the unhealthy, historically embedded patterns that lead to physical and mental symptoms.

The two orientations contained in this series are:

Breaking Through Patient ResistanceTherapy falls apart and patients move on unless the therapist can work effectively with the patient’s resistance. Reich worked directly with immediacy and efficacy in approaching resistance. Learn how to work with presenting character styles that actually illuminate and manifest the patient’s resistance. Discover ways to pinpoint latent negative resistance and see how it infects treatment.

Integrating Somatic Psychology into Current Therapeutic ParadigmsThis audio class provides an overview of Reich’s theoretical and clinical approach including characteranalysis and a description of the elements of Reich’s biophysical theory and practice. Reich’s understanding of character and its template in the body will be presented. Many psychodynamic approaches can incorporate Reich’s techniques that will enliven and deepen long term or short term treatment. The orientation will include an experiential demonstration of characteranalytic verbal work.

CE Credit:Our audio courses meet the qualifications for continuing education credit for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. We are also an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 15245.